Brave New Films Hits The Healthcare Industry Hard

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm impressed with this video which presents some of what's wrong with the health care industry in America today. Specifically, it reveals how much money some of the top executives make, and compares these amounts to the cost of health care denied by the insurance company. One number that caught my ear was the president of UnitedHealth Care

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[veronica_milvus]

"Profiting from the suffering and death of others is evil"
It is a common fallacy that healthcare companies are doing just that.

But what about profiting from the alleviating of suffering and the prolonging of life? Isn't that what they are supposed to be doing?

Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

In theory, they should be alleviating suffering, which is a laudable thing; and if they could profit from that, it would be fine. In practice, they are doing such an inferior job that America, once a leading nation in providing health care to its citizens, is now behind dozens of other nations. This inclines me to think that the people in power within this industry while that happened are incompetent.

Re: Well...

[veronica_milvus]

I'm not so sure you are so far behind! I think you have some of the best health care in the world for those who are insured. Your academic institutions are second to none, and your doctors are key opinion leaders in almost every area of medicine.

It just needs to spread a little further.

Re: Well...

[ysabetwordsmith]

America has the best health care in the world for the wealthy. Even people who are insured frequently find, at the worst possible time, that their policy does not cover what they thought it did -- or that it should, but the company refuses and refuses to pay what it owes.

You are certainly right that it needs to be spread around more.